Old drafts after edits

What is an old draft

After a panel is drawn, if you change something used to draw it, the image no longer matches what is written now. Wapopo will not secretly redraw it for you. Instead, it adds a small amber “Old draft” tag to the panel to remind you: this image was drawn from the old version.

What changes make a panel become an old draft

There are only three, and they only apply to panels that already have an image:

1. The panel description changed: even if you changed only one word;
2. The cast list for this panel changed: changing only the order does not count;
3. The appearance notes on an element card in the cast list changed: for example, if you change the main character’s hairstyle, every finished panel that uses that character becomes an old draft.

Hover over the “Old draft” tag to see which reason caused it.

These do not count

• Editing text such as dialogue or captions: they float on top of the image, so you do not need to redraw after editing them;
• Editing the cast list for this episode (the row under the synopsis);
• Editing worldbuilding;
• Editing a card’s name or description;
• Redrawing the image for an element card, or redrawing the previous panel.

One more thing: if you change the description back to what it was before, the old draft marker still will not go away. The marker is cleared only after this panel is redrawn with a new image.

Why not redraw automatically? Each redraw is one image and costs credits. You may have only changed a word in passing and may not want to redraw. Or you may want to finish several edits and draw them together. So Wapopo only reminds you. It does not decide for you.

Where you can see it

• In the storyboard, “Old draft” appears in the top-right corner of the panel;
• At the top of the page details, “N old-draft panels” appears, and amber dots appear in the panel list;
• In a panel’s details, “Edited · not redrawn” appears on the description card, and “Changed · Not redrawn” appears on the cast list card;
• In the “Production” column and the “Drawn x/y” count in page details, old drafts do not count as drawn.

How to redraw

• One panel at a time: in that panel’s details, click “Redraw”;
• One page at a time: in the bottom-left of the page details, when everything to draw is an old draft, the button says “Redraw this page”;
• The whole episode at once: “Draw this episode” draws both undrawn panels and old drafts in this episode. See “Draw this episode, and stop anytime”.

Each panel you redraw is one image and costs 100 credits.

Where the old image goes

After you redraw, the old image is not lost. It stays in the gallery and is marked “Pushed out by redraw.” In a panel’s details, click “All versions ›” to see every version that has been drawn for that panel. In the current release, you can only view them. You cannot switch back yet.

Two more things to know about old drafts

• When the next panel is drawn by “continuing from the previous panel,” it only uses the previous panel’s image as a reference if that image is not an old draft.
• Old drafts can still be exported. The export uses the old image currently in the panel. If you want to export the new look, redraw first.

Changing the layout is not an old draft: If you change the layout for a page, the images on that page are cleared directly instead of becoming old drafts. See “Layout” in “Storyboard: page by page, panel by panel”.